Here you can see the horrible choices facing someone who came for the Little Rock health fair: do I see a doctor about the Stage-Three cancer diagnosis I got seven years ago that bankrupted me, or do I try to see a dentist about the immediate and agonizing pain from this abscessed tooth?

Arkansans who speak with our Eve at the Little Rock health fair today are embarrassed that they can't afford to go to the dentist or the doctor. They seem almost ashamed that they don't have the finances to pay for health insurance.

Despite Bart Stupak's July letter announcing his intent to submit an amendment to health care reform further restricting American women's reproductive rights, Village insider Ellen Malcolm waited until TODAY to sound the alarm, while list-building and fundraising on a purported petition to Harry Reid to "Stop Stupak."

Sen. Dianne Feinstein has joined the Fiscal-Scold-Seven to put her foot down on Social Security and Medicare: she won't vote to raise the debt ceiling (required within a month or Uncle Sam defaults) without a law establishing a "bipartisan commission" that's sure to ruin Baby Boomer benefits just as the Democratic coalition cracks over choice and the Stupak Amendment.

Bribery is bribery, and there's no excusing it in our public officials. But in the "punishment fits the crime" department, there's something wrong with the proposed sentence of Dollar Bill Jefferson when you compare it that handed down to Randy "Duke" Cunningham.

Barrt Stupak is about to be Santorum'd. Head on over to Urban Dictionary to vote up Stupak #2.

There's been lots of political and economic discussion about exchanges and bending the cost curve, but not a lot of real-world answers to some pretty basic questions about health care reform. Maybe you know these answers? Or maybe you'll have a chance to ask a Congresscritter the answers?

One thing the Bush/Cheney cabal can never now deny: this guy Americans elected to succeed their incompetent criminal enterprise, the President we have now? He has kept us safer than they did.